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Memorial Day is marked by Veterans For Peace in many different ways, in various locales across the country. This year’s events at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., were smaller than last year’s. Public crowds at

Our Memorial Day project continues as 2018 unfolds. In terms of the American War in Viet Nam, this year looms large — fifty years ago the Tet Offensive exploded; the infamous My Lai massacre took its devastating toll;

Today’s Veterans on the March was a very special event. Although the turnout was small, the crowd was solidly a veteran one. The rally lasted more than two hours, but people did not drift off, attesting to the great line-up

2017 Memorial Day Event – Letters to The Wall America wants YOU to write a letter today to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Wall) for delivery on Memorial Day. Over the past two years we have solicited letters from folks just

Our book LETTERS TO THE WALL is now available in print format and as an e-book. You may purchase the book at cost. I hope you are as proud of it as we are. This has been an amazing journey that has just begun. We will be

Photo credit: Ellen Davidson Memorial Day 2016 Event – EXTENDED DEADLINE:Write to us by May 21st! Brothers and Sisters: If the Vietnam War still causes you to reflect deeply about the meaning of that war and its

This post originally appears at http://www.vvmf.org/items/ Items Left at The Wall – The Virtual Collection Since the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Wall) was dedicated in November 1982, more than 400,000 items have been

This video originally appeared at Telesur.net. Washington, United States US politicians continue to justify the war but omit making allusions to the human cost and the impact they have on those who put their lives on the

This article originally appeared at Discovery Society. Veterans For Peace Full Disclosure Campaign On May 25, 2012, in announcing a 13-year long commemoration of the war in Viet Nam, President Obama proclaimed: “As we

First write a letter describing how the Vietnam war affected you: soldier, civilian, antiwar activist, child of any of the above and then if possible join us in DC at noon on Memorial day at the Wall. Details in the letter

This letter originally appeared as part of our Memorial Day Event: Letters In Support Of Vietnam Full Disclosure and has also been published at counterpunch.org. Entering the Aura of the Dead The Wall by MICHAEL UHL I knew two

MEMORIAL DAY LETTER CAMPAIGN & ACTION THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL: JOIN OUR MEMORIAL DAY LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN The Pentagon is intent upon taking control of how we remember the American War in Vietnam. Their myth-making

This article originally appeared at Portside.com. U.S. Vietnam policy was built on twenty-five years of lies. The Vietnamese fought Japanese occupation during World War II and sought a free Vietnam after the war free of

Hey, Buddy, Wanna Buy A Used War? I was raised by two historians. My father had a Harvard PhD in history and was a history professor, and my mother was ABD (all but dissertation) in history from Johns Hopkins. History was a

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The Full Disclosure campaign is a Veterans For Peace effort to speak truth to power and keep alive the antiwar perspective on the American war in Viet Nam — which is now approaching a series of 50th anniversary events. It represents a clear alternative to the Pentagon’s current efforts to sanitize and mythologize the Vietnam war and to thereby legitimize further unnecessary and destructive wars.

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This Month in History: 1969

February First trial of draft resistors known as the Buffalo 9. Around 150 University of Buffalo students and faculty picket the U.S. Courthouse, chanting “Free the Nine — The Trial’s a Crime”. Defendants argue that it was necessary to resist an “immoral, illegal, racist, politically insane war on the Vietnamese people.” Charges include assaulting federal officers, as well as draft evasion. The jury is unable to reach a verdict on several of the defendants but Bruce Beyer is convicted and receives a three-year sentence. Beyer later goes to Canada and then Sweden to help organize fellow resistors and deserters.

February Fort Gordon – Pfc. Dennis Davis editor of (the antiwar newspaper) Last Harass) is given an undesirable discharge.

February 14 The first three of 27 Gls charged with mutiny at the Presidio are found guilty and sentenced to 14, 15, and 16 years at hard labor by a court martial at the San Francisco Presidio stockade (see entry for October 14, 1968). By this time, three of those charged (Blake, Mather, and Pawlowski) had escaped to Canada. On appeal, the long sentences for mutiny were voided by the Court of Military Review in June 1970, and reduced to short sentences for willful disobedience of a superior officer. Rowland, for example, was released in 1970 after a year and a half imprisonment. See The Unlawful Concert by Fred Gardner for a fuller description of the case, as well as entry for October 14, 1968.

February 20 Tacoma – the Shelter Half coffee house’s business license is revoked. See October 1968 entry.

February 22-23 NLF attack 110 targets throughout South Vietnam, including Saigon.

February 25 36 U.S. Marines are killed by NVA (PAVN or VPA) who raid their base camp near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).

2016 National Book Award Finalist, Viet Thanh Nguyen:

“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory . . . . Memory is haunted, not just by ghostly others but by the horrors we have done, seen, and condoned, or by the unspeakable things from which we have profited.”